Dr. Vukugah Achombwom Thomas
ICAP at Columbia University, Cameroon.
Biography
Vukugah Achombwom Thomas, MPH, is a bilingual, dynamic epidemiologist with eight years’ experience in the planning, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB programs globally. Mr Vukugah specializes in strategic planning, capacity building and Monitoring/evaluation of public Health programs. He is a PhD fellow in epidemiology at the Atlantic International University, USA, where his research work focused on investigating childhood TB risk factors, management, and treatment outcomes in the Centre region of Cameroon. In the last six years he has actively participated in PEPFAR and UNITAIDS Health research funded project on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis respectively in Cameroon, Kenya and Mozambique with Technical, managerial, coordination and operational roles. His research work mainly focuses on generating population-level evidence to inform communicable diseases prevention and control efforts and strengthening the health system response to communicable disease management.